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ANOTHER EXTENSION, ANOTHER SHOW – AT 11:51 A.M. ET:  The Iran talks are being extended again.  What a farce!  They've been negotiating for years, and you'd think the basics of any agreement worth having would be clear by now.  From the Washington Examiner: 

Negotiators working on a deal to limit Iran's nuclear program have agreed to extend an interim agreement until Monday to give them more time to work, a senior State Department official said Friday.

An extension until Monday, July 13, was granted through a decision to extend the measures of the Joint Plan of Action through that date. The JPOA was agreed in late 2013, and provides a framework for the effort to reach a final agreement.

The original deadline for a final deal was June 30, but negotiators agreed to extend the JPOA deadline until July 7. That was pushed to Friday, and on Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry said the talks would go past that deadline as well.

"We will not rush and we will not be rushed," Kerry said in Vienna.

COMMENT:  Congress will have 60 days to examine any agreement.  Expect Republicans to reject it, and Obama to veto the rejection.   The battle will be over whether the veto can be overturned. 

July 10, 2015